The legend of Hongshan Tower in Urumqi

First of all, let’s start with the Urumqi River. Urumqi Junggar Mongolian: beautiful pasture. It plays an important role on the Silk Road. On the Silk Road leading to Central Asia, West Asia and Europe, most of the items transported are porcelain, tea, jade, silk and other large and heavy items. The Urumqi River acted as a blockage. Some merchants were unable to cross the river due to the rise and fall of the river, so some goods were sold on the spot. Visited the markets on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This is where the prototype of the city of Urumqi began. Historically, the Urumqi River often overflowed and caused disasters, which was used to "lock mountains and lock water." Floods occurred for two consecutive years in the fifty-third year of Qianlong's reign (1788). Local superstitious Manchu officials said that Hongshan and Yamalik Mountains were Legend has it that it was the incarnation of a giant dragon that soared out of the Tianchi. Because this dragon often stirred up the river water and caused flooding, the Queen Mother of the West pulled out a jade hairpin and threw it, and immediately turned it into a sword and cut the dragon's body into two pieces. turned into two mountains. And this giant dragon did not die, but looked for an opportunity to merge. So the river flooded. At this time, Shang An, the governor of Urumqi, listened to the officials' words. Then he ordered to build a nine-level solid blue brick "Dragon Zhenlong Pagoda" on the heads of these two "giant dragons". The tower is 10.5 meters high and is an octagonal pavilion-style nine-level gray solid brick pagoda. The layers are retracted layer by layer, and the crown of the tower is an octagonal crown. The pagoda on Yamalik Mountain collapsed in a strong wind in 1946 due to disrepair. It is now a rebuilt pagoda. The Hongshan Town Dragon Pagoda has survived more than 200 years of ups and downs and has become the soul of Hongshan, adding to its mystery.

Historically, the top of Hongshan Mountain was also a place for sacrificial ceremonies. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1799), a Jade Emperor Temple was built. The North Temple has majestic buildings and terracotta chalk walls, and is also known as " "Hongmiaozi" is widely spread among the people. There are also the Great Buddha Temple, Beidou Palace and Ksitigarbha Palace under the mountain peak. Later, due to the war, the Jade Emperor Temple and others were destroyed by the war.

After years of greening on Hongshan, in recent years, a stone sculpture of Lin Zexu, a national hero of the Qing Dynasty, and a group of sculptures commemorating the greening of Hongshan have been built. A "viewing tower" and some service facilities have been built, opening up It is called "Red Mountain Park".

Red Mountain is the symbol of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.

This is the tour guide I used to use as a tour guide, haha